Improved modk of treating tobacco



. hereimtfter explained.

o hops with them.

for smoking.

SAMUEL" e. "RIGEQO'F" A'L'B A NY. N EW YORK;

Lam Patent No. 106,207, am: August '9, 1870; amdamuugui 5, 1870.-

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The Schedule referred mm these Letters 2mm and makin us the mac addition thereto of another vegetable substance which possesses gnon y of the properties of tobacco, and-which will render the manufactured article cheaper, lighter,

und less injurious than-the puretob'cccmns will be The following is adescription of thebest modes known to me ofpreparing my improved tobacco I take, say, one-third leaf-tobuccoyone-thh'd stems that-have beenLstripped from theirleayes, and one-' third spent hops, that is to say, the s'trobiles of'hops which have been used by brewers. i

, I cutthe stems fine; and mix as equal amount of [then add to the whole in the theabov'e the leaf tobacco, and cut usual manneroi making fine tobacco For chewing-tobacco, I soairthe hops in a solution of tobacco until'they are thoroughly saturated. Que-third of the hops t-hussaturated ismixed with equal qunntities of leaf-tobacco, sugar, and liquorice. This mixture is then out into fine-shreds in the usual manner of-munui'octurin fine-cut chewing-tobacco.

Thehops serve as a. means for uniting the'"s"tems.

and leaf-tohncco, so that they will hold together during the operation'oi' cutting, and also afterward;

The hops will also sweeten tobacco which, fi''om longstanding or other cause, has become a. little sour or musty. V i I v A very .fine article can be produced by mixing the hops with the leaves, omitting'the stems, and cutting 1s described, but this article will, of course, be more lexpensive than if the stems'were mi led. 1 prefer to adopt the relative proportions of the substances herein mentioned, but do not coufine'niymixed according to circumstances.

Having described my invention,- .I .ola.lm "a.s new and desire to secure by Letters I 'atent'-- e The mode, substantially as herein described. of preparing and improving tobacco.

v SAMUEL G. RICE,

self to these precise proportions, as they 'i nn.y he

Witnesses: I

Jam S. Bree, 

